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Phylica cryptandroides

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Identification
Phylica cryptandroides Sond. [family RHAMNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Phylica rosmarinifolia
  • Soulangia subcanescens
  • Phylica cryptandroides
  • Phylica villosa
  • Soulangia arborescens

Flora

Entry for PHYLICA cryptandroides Sond. [family RHAMNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 475, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
PHYLICA cryptandroides Sond. [family RHAMNACEAE]
PHYLICA rosmarinifolia E. Meyer [family RHAMNACEAE], in Herb. Dreg. c.
Information
branches rigid; twigs simple, subglabrous; leaves spreading, secundate, linear, acute, with revolute margins, convex, glabrous and papillose above, whitish downy beneath, young ones adpressed-pubescent; flowers sessile, glomerate or spiked at the summit of corymbose peduncles; calyx whitish tomentose; capsule ovate-globose, woolly, at length glabrate; area as large as the capsule. Shrub, 2–3 feet high; branches erect, virgate. Leaves circ. 6 lines long, 1 line wide. Corymb. 1/2–1 inch long and wide; peduncles at the upper part with 6–10 sessile flowers, formed in a head-like spike. Calyx campanulate, 1 line long, segments acute. Capsule of the size of a pea.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Roodeberge, 2–3500 ft. Nov. Drege. Kardow, Zeyh. 323. (Herb., Sond., T.C.D.)

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